(This column was originally posted as a post on my Facebook last Monday; it’s published here with a few changes.) The critics of the President are now fussing about supposed inconsistencies in his statements during the campaign, claiming he grew up poor, and his recent pronouncement that he actually inherited some money from his father […]

The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) will be conducting an investigation into the possible anomalies at the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) as part of its probe on the reported unexplained wealth of Commission on Elections (Comelec) Commissioner Andres Bautista, Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II said Wednesday. “I made a DO (Department Order) […]

A total of 25 Department of Education (DepEd) Central Office personnel from different support units participated in City Savings Bank’s Project Peraparasyon last May 19. The term is derived from the amalgamation of the words “pera” and “preparasyon” translated as “money” and “preparation” respectively, and is designed to enhance the public school teaching and nonteaching […]

ACTOR turned Ormoc City Mayor Richard Gomez is fighting back, saying he is also going to expose “ninja cops” involved in the illegal drugs trade. In a statement sent to Inquirer on Sunday, Gomez welcomed the move of the Philippine National Police to investigate him over his alleged links to the Espinosa drug operation, as […]

Business magnate Mary Sarindhorn Mativachranon of Thailand was a fugitive from the law for more than a decade, accused of a crime that she didn’t commit. She told delegates of the 51st International Eucharistic Congress that in her desperation, she nearly wanted to kill herself. “I kept asking God to take me away. I looked […]

It always bothers him to think how easily the world is changed by people who would do what few others are willing to do, acts so unthinkable they qualify as inhuman. And he wonders: What can move humans to do that? His own tendency to romanticize mysterious acts leads him to think they must have […]